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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

Jean de La Fontaine

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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
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French Moralist
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Chateau-Thierry
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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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